On What We Owe to Each Other - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405119217 ISBN 13: 9781405119214

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

Five leading moral philosophers assess various aspects of T.M. Scanlon’s moral theory as laid out in his seminal work, What We Owe to Each Other.

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• An assessment of T.M. Scanlon’s seminal work What We Owe to Each Other.
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• Written by five leading moral philosophers.
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• Contributes to debates initiated by Scanlon on value theory, normative ethics, and metaethics.
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• Includes a response by T.M. Scanlon in which he clarifies and develops his views.

About this title

Book Description:

T.M. Scanlons What We Owe to Each Other is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy of recent years. It presents distinctive views on reasons, value, and well-being, and offers a contractualist account of moral wrongness and significance. It has initiated debates on the nature of value, the role of well-being, how numbers matter in deciding what we should do, and the role justifiability plays in our moral thinking.In On What We Owe to Each Other, five leading moral philosophers assess various aspects of Scanlons moral theory as laid out in this seminal work. Topics discussed include Scanlons contractualism, his view on well-being, aggregation, the nature of moral properties, moral reasoning, and relativism. The book also includes a response by T.M. Scanlon in which he clarifies and develops his views.

About the Author:

Philip Stratton-Lake is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has published widely on Kant, intuitionism and metaethics. He is the author of Kant, Duty and Moral Worth (2000) and editor of Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations (2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1405119217
• ISBN 13: 9781405119214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152
• Editor: Stratton-Lake Philip